DYNAMITE ACCIDENT.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 42, 10 August 1889, Page 3

DYNAMITE ACCIDENT.

- -- Xaxt ae. hN*u l.ww lately ♦ ■saitid by tli.- u'so of dynamitv Oelv a few day* atfu a ai»u bel<>njiua to Um town of Magia. «anMxl flalai, aad never*! ..thrr naMve*. started •ml m Wednesday morning ht the p«rpa* of shooting fish t.» take to TMMMMM* at Um tart. Belai and two others warn diving aad breaking up atnaea to entice lis ash tasrether, When they trad a good crowd mud, Um bum. who hod Um dynamite culled out to Uiom diving to ran uwny quickly. Ha then lighted Um charge, and threw it into Um water All ran away oioept Salai, who did not appear to hear, and dived again almost at tho same moment. The fuaa beinir vary short, the charge aaplooVd whiUt lie wan Mill uiiil<«r water Tho other native* picked him up at once, and took him homo in a canoe, where he now liea suffering from s*rious injury to Uie lioad. Whou hrotigntaahuro his ny«a were sticking out nearly a* -big as egg>, and the top ■>( iiis bead very much swollen. His rotations did not think he would liw, but to-day they say Lu is a little better

Wo understand thero is, or was, a law against selling dynamite to natives, but supi<oso unscrupulous characters take i d vantage of oursituation to make uiouny in this way, as thoy do with the liquor traffic. Dynamite is a highly dangerous material, and tho natives do n»t understand the propor use of it. Wo aro told there is groat quantity among the natives. All over tho country can be hoard explosions of dynamite, and it is surprising there aro not more accident*. Probably there sre, but we do uot hear of them